Welcome to the Women's Engineering Program!
News
- Check out the Women's Engineering Program on LinkedIn!
- Looking for housing during your internship or new job after graduation? Check out the Housing for Interns and New Grads tab!
- Check out the Women's Engineering Program's Spring 2024 Highlights!
- Meet our Industry Advisory Board members: our partners in industry who support women in engineering and technology.
- Check out the SWE Outreach to see what SWE has been up to this year.
- Congratulations to 2025's Outstanding Women in Engineering award recipients, sponsored by the Golden Gate SWE chapter! The winners were Claire Nodine (Biomedical Engineering), Kelly Chew (Civil Engineering), Sophie Russ (Computer Science), Serena Yeh (Environmental Engineering), and Vinithra Seshan (Industrial Engineering). Learn more about the 2025's Outstanding Women in Engineering.
- Cal Poly SWE received first place in the 2022 Team Tech competition sponsored by Boeing. They participated in the WE22 conference, the world's largest conference for women engineers. During this conference, they won first place in the Boeing Team Tech competition for their project Anthropomorphic Cargo System, the Boeing Multicultural Award, and Alyssa Liu (2021-2022 Cal Poly SWE President) received the Outstanding Collegiate Member Award. Check out Cal Poly SWE's past awards.
Did you know?
+ Engineers make a difference!
780 million people lack access to clean water; approximately 1 in 9 people. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness. Lack of sanitation is the world's leading cause of infection.
In December 2015, Cal Poly's Engineers without Borders sent 17 engineering students abroad to work on several ongoing projects in India, Thailand, Nicaragua, and Malawi. EWB's Thailand team spent three weeks in Thailand performing water quality testing on previously implemented filters and assessing for an energy project.
From left: Kimberly Pugel (ENVE), Michallynn Hoffman (IE), Stefania Beauchamp (SE), Abigail Nial (MATE) showing the water quality trays from the team's previously implemented slow sand filters. The yellow trays are positive for fecal coliforms before the filters and the clear trays are clean from after the filters.
Students taking drinking water samples with some of the kids from the community of Maejantai.
Stefania Beauchamp double checking field notes with one of the boys from Maejantai.
Visit EWBThailand's travel blog to see more of what the team has been up to!
Cal Poly Students Create Beach Walker for Local Special Olympic Athlete (pdf): These college seniors designed and built a beach walker for an 8 year old athlete with cerebral palsy.
Engineering World Health: "EWH finds innovative solutions to overcome technical challenges impacting health care in developing countries.
+ Many companies recruit from Cal Poly.
Median starting salary for CENG: $85,000
Highest starting salary: $145,000
In 2022-2023, 98% of college of engineering graduates found jobs related to their majors.
+ You CAN change your major.
Almost 90% of CP students didn’t decide to be an engineer until High School.
"Over 30% of our students change majors [successfully.]” –Removing Hurdles Towards Progress to Degree: Curricular, Poly, and Technical Challenges
Learn more about the engineering disciplines!
Contact Information
Program Director
Helene Finger
hfinger@calpoly.edu
Student Assistant
Ashley Corona
womens-engineering@calpoly.edu
WEP Office
Building 40, Rm 113
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
SWE Office
Building 197, Room 212
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
calpolyswesecretary@gmail.com